1. GENERAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS:
   particularly as applied to medical, safety and consumer information in the US and UK.

2. LANGUAGE PLANNING:
   working on theoretical aspects of function planning, with particular reference to
   The language of safety information and general consumer information
   Absorption of immigrants in Israel;
   The status of Hebrew as a written language;
   The sociology of Hebrew dictionaries.

3. SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF JEWISH LANGUAGE:
   The Yiddish letter-writing manual, a little explored Yiddish literary genre that challenges sociolinguistic conventions about what Yiddish is legitimate;
   The language of the Ultraorthodox Jewish world;
   The rebirth of Spoken Hebrew.

   
   

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